(Location: Kyoto, Japan )
(Scene: morning time; approximately 9:30am. We are looking for breakfast, and stop at a cafe. The display window, an oddly standard thing in Japan, shows pancakes, waffles, and other options, but with the labels and prices turned around. We enter.)
Us: Are you still serving breakfast?
Server: Yes. We are serving our morning menu.
Us: What about the pancakes and waffles? Their cards are turned around.
Server: We serve morning menu only now.
Us: The waffles are not part of the morning menu?
Server: Those are on afternoon menu.
Us: For lunch?
Server: Yes.
(We look at the morning menu. Fish, rice, omelet served over rice. Some noodles.)
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As some of you know, we just returned from a trip to Japan. We learned many things. Today's lesson regards meals. The Japanese don't eat dessert after dinner. But worry not.
Seems like there is a Breakfast/Lunch/Mystery meal/Dinner schedule going on. Mystery meal seems to be served sometime between 1PM and 5PM, and from what we can tell consists of: Parfaits, Waffles, Pancakes, Cakes, Sundaes, Donuts, Coffee etc. It may sound like a sort of tea-time, but only if your took tea-time at Farrell's as a kid. The more frilly the dish, the better. And since 85% of all things in Japan are matcha-flavored, you will see a lot of green in your 'meal'. Favorite thing I saw was a sundae with corn flakes on the bottom, a scoop of vanilla ice cream, a scoop of matcha ice cream, 2 whole bananas, 12 pounds of strawberries, an entire slice of cake, a pile of whip cream, with a cherry on top. Seriously. Almost every restaurant serves this meal. We saw it often advertised as cake set. And don't forget, dinner starts at six...
Monday, June 14, 2010
Cake set
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